Damascus vs Nizhny Novgorod - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: October 14, 2025

	Damascus	Nizhny Novgorod
🚶 Cost of living one person	$671	$882
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1492	$2140
🏠 One person rent	$315	$430
🏘️ Family rent	$505	$758
🍽️ Food expenses	$250	$308
🚐 Transport expenses	$61.5	$50.5
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$47.6	$721
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Excellent
✈️ Airport proximity	24 km	13 km
🎓 Higher education	28	46
😀 Quality of life	39	60
🏙️ Population	2.69M	1.2M

The cost of living in Damascus is 24% less expensive than in Nizhny Novgorod. Cities ranked 7287th and 6322nd ($671 vs $882) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 14th in Syria and Russia, respectively. Check Syria vs Russia comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.1 months in Damascus compared to 0.8 months in Nizhny Novgorod. Damascus ranked 1st best city to live in Syria vs Nizhny Novgorod ranked 14th in Russia, while ranked 7834th and 5937th among best cities to live in the world.

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Prices in Damascus vs Nizhny Novgorod

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	Damascus	Nizhny Novgorod
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$7.99	$11.6
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$28.8	$37
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.96	$5.79
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.61	$0.97
☕ Cappuccino	$1.95	$2.44
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.38	$1.29
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$219	$495
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$160	$320
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$398	$879
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$295	$588
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$88	$67.8
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$135	$105
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$54.5	$7.16
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	13.62%	18.87%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1865	$2854
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$645	$1848
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.1	$0.49
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$17	$15.5
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$6.96	$6.2
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.43	$0.73
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.98	$1.05
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$0.5	$0.6
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.66	$1.27
🥚 Eggs, x12	$1.83	$1.49
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$3.22	$10.4
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.18	$5.15
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$11.5	$9.31
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1	$1.68
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.53	$1.63
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.07	$1.9
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.76	$2.7
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.71	$0.67
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.65	$0.65
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.46	$0.48
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$1.1	$1.5
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$5.97	$8.62
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.01	$1.07
🚬 Cigarette pack	$3.02	$2.68
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$3.03	$8.18
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$0.86	$3.13
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$0.48	$1.36
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$0.59	$1.27
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$16.2	$28.9
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$2.98	$6.15
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$3.82	$16
💇 Haircut, simple	$2.78	$5.62
👖 Brand Jeans	$44.4	$77.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$58	$129
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$49.6	$327
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$1711	$3800

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Cities near Damascus

Distance	City	Cost of living
51 km or 32 mi	Zahle	$930
75 km or 47 mi	Kiryat Shmona	$1808
81 km or 50 mi	Jounieh	$1028
83 km or 52 mi	Sidon	$822
83 km or 52 mi	Beirut	$1261
96 km or 59 mi	Safed	$1847
105 km or 65 mi	Tyre	$647
108 km or 67 mi	Tiberias	$1808
110 km or 68 mi	Ma'alot-Tarshiha	$1803
111 km or 69 mi	Tripoli	$787
114 km or 71 mi	Irbid	$753
115 km or 72 mi	Arraba	$1789
116 km or 72 mi	Karmiel	$1630
117 km or 73 mi	Sakhnin	$1745
125 km or 78 mi	Tamra	$1798
125 km or 78 mi	Nahariya	$1775
126 km or 78 mi	Nof HaGalil	$1862
129 km or 80 mi	Nazareth	$1850
130 km or 81 mi	Acre	$1633
131 km or 81 mi	Shefa-'Amr	$1828
135 km or 84 mi	Migdal HaEmek	$1917
136 km or 84 mi	Kiryat Motzkin	$1842
136 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Ata	$1769
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Yam	$1819
137 km or 85 mi	Kiryat Bialik	$1804
137 km or 85 mi	Afula	$1817
141 km or 88 mi	Homs	$402
142 km or 88 mi	Nesher	$1757
143 km or 89 mi	Jerash	$748
145 km or 90 mi	Haifa	$1840
145 km or 90 mi	Yokneam Illit	$1932
154 km or 95 mi	Umm al-Fahm	$1954
163 km or 101 mi	Zikhron Ya'akov	$1978
168 km or 105 mi	Baqa-Jatt	$2001
169 km or 105 mi	Pardes Hanna-Karkur	$1991
173 km or 107 mi	Al-Salt	$548
173 km or 108 mi	Nablus	$915
174 km or 108 mi	Hadera	$1786
177 km or 110 mi	Amman	$1009
184 km or 114 mi	Tayibe	$2108

Cities near Nizhny Novgorod

Distance	City	Cost of living
36 km or 22 mi	Dzerzhinsk	$697
198 km or 123 mi	Ivanovo	$615
202 km or 125 mi	Cheboksary	$772
223 km or 139 mi	Vladimir	$650
241 km or 150 mi	Yoshkar-Ola	$693
245 km or 152 mi	Kostroma	$765
250 km or 155 mi	Saransk	$719
290 km or 180 mi	Yaroslavl	$672
323 km or 200 mi	Kazan	$868
331 km or 205 mi	Ryazan	$692
350 km or 217 mi	Elektrostal	$863
353 km or 220 mi	Penza	$537
355 km or 221 mi	Ulyanovsk	$641
366 km or 227 mi	Rybinsk	$678
380 km or 236 mi	Balashikha	$898
386 km or 240 mi	Korolyov	$831
387 km or 240 mi	Lyubertsy	$917
391 km or 243 mi	Mytishchi	$800
402 km or 250 mi	Moscow	$1438
403 km or 250 mi	Vologda	$544
410 km or 255 mi	Khimki	$914
415 km or 258 mi	Podolsk	$876
418 km or 260 mi	Krasnogorsk	$915
421 km or 262 mi	Kirov	$536
434 km or 270 mi	Tambov	$672
453 km or 281 mi	Syzran	$692
466 km or 289 mi	Tolyatti	$686
469 km or 291 mi	Tula	$837
477 km or 297 mi	Cherepovets	$543
482 km or 300 mi	Obninsk	$671
492 km or 305 mi	Nizhnekamsk	$681
498 km or 310 mi	Tver	$727
501 km or 311 mi	Lipetsk	$570
522 km or 324 mi	Naberezhnye Chelny	$755
525 km or 326 mi	Samara	$796
527 km or 328 mi	Kaluga	$582
536 km or 333 mi	Balakovo	$658
544 km or 338 mi	Almetyevsk	$709
549 km or 341 mi	Saratov	$783
558 km or 347 mi	Engels	$758